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Approximately
at 3pm on June 24, 1947, the civil pilot Kenneth Arnold was flying near Mount
Rainier in Washington State (USA), when he saw nine objects flying one behind
the other in an echelon formation: the first four, a gap, and then the other
five.

They were shining and “they flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across the
water."With this description, Arnold
referred to their kinetics, their motion.

The
objects did not have the shape of a disc or saucer, (see the sketch done by
Arnold), but the journalist William Bequette, of the newspaper “East Oregonian”
coined the phrase “flying saucers”, and from then on, people started to see “saucers”
or “discs” in the sky!.

The
power of suggestion made people see “saucers” instead of other shapes.

But
each “saucer” is different to another. There is practically no case of exactly
the same kind of object and shape in the UFO reports and the whole literature on
the subject, exception made with the pictured objects in McMinnville (Oregon,
1950) and Rouen (France, 1954). But we know that McMinnville was a hoax.

65
years have gone since “the case that started it all” and so far, no one solid
evidence with scientific value has been presented to undoubtedly and
categorically be able to affirm that there are flying around the planet extremely
sophisticated machines which are not the product of human technology.

The
astronauts at the ISS and now the Chinese astronauts in orbit have never seen
fleets of strange objects coming from space to Earth, or leaving the Earth and
going into the space.

Therefore,
if there is a strange phenomenon whose nature we still do not know, it seems
that it is more related to Earth than to the space.

Is
it the product of a super secret and unconventional technology? Is it something
natural so far not accepted or properly clasificado by science? Or is it
something coming from a parallel universe or another time?

Those
are the questions that the investigators have in front of them. And that is the
reason why after 65 years of the Arnold case, there is still a need to
determine the real identity of the unusual phenomena.

The mysterious unmanned
mini-space shuttle on a classified mission has finally returned to earth.

It landed early Saturday morning at Vandenberg Air Force Base in
California at 5:48 a.m. PDT after weather conditions kept pushing back
landing attempts the last few days. The shuttle spent 469 days in orbit.

The Air Force's X-37B, is an unmanned reusable spacecraft built by
Boeing that has spent more than a year on a classified mission in space.

Measuring 29 feet in length and having a 15-foot wingspan, the unmanned
reusable X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle looks like a miniature version of
NASA's now retired space shuttles.

The craft went into orbit on March 5, 2011, but as was the case during
its first launch in 2010, very little has been known about its mission
or what payloads it might be carrying because its missions are
classified.

That has led to speculation that the spacecraft is involved in
intelligence gathering operations or the testing of new technologies.

In keeping with the scarce mission details for the X-37B, all the Air
Force would say in a statement Saturday was that the spacecraft had
"conducted on-orbit experiments" during its mission.

Lt. Col. Tom McIntyre, the X-37B program manager said, "With the
retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet, the X-37B OTV program brings a
singular capability to space technology development." He added, "The
return capability allows the Air Force to test new technologies without
the same risk commitment faced by other programs. We're proud of the
entire team's successful efforts to bring this mission to an outstanding
conclusion."

Even the initial announcement about an upcoming landing details kept the
details vague. A May 30 Air Force statement said the spacecraft would
return to earth in the "early- to mid-June time frame."

Designed to stay in extended Earth orbits, the X-37B remained in orbit for 224 days during its maiden mission in 2010.

This mission kept it in orbit more than twice as long this time around.

An Air Force statement announcing Saturday's landing says the X37B will launch again later this fall aboard an Atlas V booster.